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Photos: JPMorgan Chase

Eduardo Munoz | ReutersJPMorgan Chase, whose New York headquarters are seen here through the building’s glass front doors, revealed on Thursday that the bank lost $2 billion from trading in credit derivatives. The bank has a storied history with strong ties to central Ohio, where Chase is the area’s largest private employer.Request to buy this photo

Keith Bedford | ReutersJPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, who came to the bank from its 2004 merger with Bank One, announced the $2 billion loss.Request to buy this photo

Ohio Statehouse Photo ArchiveThe bank uses the retail name Chase, which is taken from Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), a former Ohio governor, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the United States. Chase himself had no connection with the bank, which was founded in 1877, four years after Chase’s death.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoA portrait of Salmon P. Chase appeared on the largest-denomination bill ever placed in public circulation by the U.S. Federal Reserve, a $10,000 bill.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoDavid Rockefeller became president of Chase Manhattan Bank in 1960, and chairman and CEO in 1969. The bank, which had primarily been a commercial institution with strong connections to the Rockefeller family, became a major player in both retail banking in the United States and business banking internationally.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoJPMorgan Chase’s other namesake was financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), who was reckoned in his day the wealthiest man in the world and who was singlehandedly credited with ending the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1907. J.P. Morgan & Co. merged with Chase Manhattan in 2000 to form JPMorgan Chase.Request to buy this photo

Walter D. Nice CollectionJPMorgan Chase’s connection to central Ohio comes through Bank One, whose origins in Columbus trace back to 1868. This photograph shows the former office on the southeast corner of Gay and High streets of City National Bank, the immediate predecessor of Bank One, shortly after the bank moved to 20 E. Broad St. in the 1920s.Request to buy this photo

Dispatch File PhotoCity National Bank was not one of the bigger banks in Columbus during its early years, but rapid growth would come in the decades after World War II.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoJohn H. McCoy became president of City National Bank in 1935, ushering in three generations of leadership at the bank and a strong focus on retail banking.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoIn 1950, City National claimed the nation’s first drive-up banking window at a branch at 1245 Olentangy River Rd.Request to buy this photo

Dispatch File PhotoJohn G. McCoy – shown at right with businessman John W. Galbreath – succeeded his father at the helm of City National in 1958 and brought even more innovation.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoCity National installed the nation’s first automatic-teller machine in 1970 at its Kingsdale branch in Upper Arlington.Request to buy this photo

Dispatch File PhotoIn 1979, City National renamed its retail branches as Bank One. Here workers install a new logo at the bank’s Downtown headquarters in 2000.Request to buy this photo

Dispatch File PhotoJohn G. McCoy handed over the reins of the bank to his son John B. McCoy, left, in 1983.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoIn 1998, John B. McCoy announced the merger of the bank with First Chicago NBD with First Chicago CEO Vern G. Istok, left. The combined bank used the Bank One name, but the headquarters moved away from Columbus to the Windy City.Request to buy this photo

Fred Squillante | DispatchJohn B. McCoy’s tenure in Chicago at the new Bank One was not smooth, and he resigned from his leadership posts a year later.Request to buy this photo

Neal C. Lauron | DispatchJamie Dimon, who had served as CFO of Citigroup before leaving that financial-services conglomerate in 1998, was named McCoy’s successor as CEO of Bank One in 2000.Request to buy this photo

File PhotoDimon arranged the merger of Bank One with JPMorgan Chase in 2004. William B. Harrison Jr., left, who was CEO of JPMorgan Chase at the time, joined Dimon in discussing the upcoming merger with analysts and the media. Dimon became CEO of JPMorgan Chase at the end of 2005 and chairman a year later.Request to buy this photo

Neal C. Lauron | DispatchDimon showed respect to the McCoy family and came to Columbus to celebrate John G. McCoy’s 90th birthday in 2003. The massive office building at Polaris that is the bank’s largest facility in the world was named for John G. McCoy, who died in 2010 at the age of 97.Request to buy this photo